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...were delivered ten days earlier by a U.S.-built C-47 transport, which also dropped pallets of food and ammunition under cover of darkness at a Costa Rican site ten miles south of the Nicaraguan border. An A.R.D.E. soldier who is a U.S. citizen, George Davis, of Great Falls, Mont., claimed the pilot was an American. "I'm here to fight Communism, and I guess the pilot is too," said Davis...
...when he was making his first solo climb of an Alpine peak, Mont Blanc in France, Naomi Uemura found himself tumbling into a crevasse that had been hidden by a layer of snow. "I thought, 'What a place to die,' " the Japanese explorer later recalled." 'So far away from home.' " But he managed to struggle out, and thereafter on big climbs, he always carried a pair of sturdy 17-ft.-long bamboo poles to test the snow...
Pollution from home stoves is nearing crisis proportions In winter, when the mountain air sparkles and snow blankets the nearby hills, Missoula, Mont. (pop. 33,000), might easily be mistaken for an Alpine resort. Last week, however, it had the smogbound look of Los Angeles. A dismal haze cloaked the lumber community, virtually blotting out the slopes of the Bitterroot Range. Health authorities were forced to sound a week-long air pollution alert. They urged pregnant women, joggers and the elderly to stay indoors rather than risk breathing the foul air. Some children were not allowed out of classrooms during...
December is supposed to be cold, sure, but temperatures on the order of last week's record breakers (-52° in Wisdom, Mont.; -14° in Indianapolis; 0° in Atlanta) are unseasonably, unreasonably cold. Readings in the Central Plains have been 36° below normal. Not since record keeping began had there been December days so cold in Chicago (-25°), New Orleans (14°) and dozens of other places in the country's heartland. Nor did the vicious cold just blow in, flaunt its power briefly and leave. The mercury went down and stayed down: stayed...
...Great Plains and the Midwest were hit hardest by the air mass that rolled in from Canada. In Big Timber, Mont., the wind chill factor (a combination of 15-m.p.h. winds and temperatures of 40 below zero) made it feel as if it were -85°. In Minneapolis, the mercury fell to 29° below, the lowest in 82 years. Power failures kept thousands shivering in the dark. Lander, Wyo. (pop. 7,867), was blacked out for twelve hours; owners of wood-burning stoves invited strangers in to share the warmth. Even the Dynasty crowd loosened up under the chill...